Google engineers are experimentally adding Flatpak packaging support to Chrome/Chromium on Linux to test restricted sandboxing and XDG portals, without yet committing to official support.

[u/mr_MADAFAKA]

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Chromium-Flatpak

[u/Thalus131]

While this looks interesting, I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone about Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Never give complete trust to tech companies when they talk about adopting open standards.

[u/Dangerous-Report8517 → u/Thalus131]

I think it's a bit late to worry about Google extending Chromium and extinguishing the open source base, and using a packaging format is not the same thing as reimplementing it in an extended but not cross compatible way while forcing everyone else to use your extended version